In Defense Of Schlock Music: Why We Love/Hate It

New York Magazine and Vulture.com music critic Jody Rosen defends the kind of over-the-top, sentimental songs that Journey, Lionel Richie, Billy Joel and Prince made famous. He writes, “Schlock, at its finest, is where bad taste becomes great art.”

Rosen talks to Here & Now’s Robin Young about how the tendency towards schlock goes way back in American popular music.